Who fears to speak of '98 (or Consumption)
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Where: Wexford, Ireland
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When: 01 January 1908
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Love this one for the way the boy in his lovely stripy geansaí has mimicked the stance of this 1798 commemorative statue in Wexford town.
The poster in the background may be useful for dating purposes. I can't read all of the poster, but the top bit says "Information for Consumptive People and for those who live with them". I think this may be to do with the nationwide campaign against TB in 1907/1908...
Date: Circa 1908?? (definitely after 6 August 1905 when this bronze Pikeman was unveiled)
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The poster in the background may be useful for dating purposes. I can't read all of the poster, but the top bit says "Information for Consumptive People and for those who live with them". I think this may be to do with the nationwide campaign against TB in 1907/1908...
Date: Circa 1908?? (definitely after 6 August 1905 when this bronze Pikeman was unveiled)
NLI Ref.: L_CAB_09063
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
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derangedlemur
Judging by the small boy pictured, congenital melted face syndrome seems to be more of a risk than consumption.
derangedlemur
There's a Thirtieth annual report of the Local Government Board for Ireland, for the year ending 31st March 1902 full of information for Consumptive People and for those who live with them: eppi.dippam.ac.uk/pdf1/13804-1.pdf
derangedlemur
There's also a booklet from 1913, published by "The Department" books.google.ie/books/about/Information_for_Consumptive_P...
derangedlemur
May as well have the streetview: maps.google.ie/?ll=52.339823,-6.462514&spn=0.004103,0...
derangedlemur
"this monument commemorates the gallant men of Wexford who fought for Ireland's freedom in 1798, one of the many uprisings against foreign domination during the centuries of subjection 1169-1921. It is the work of Oliver Sheppard, RHA, and was erected in 1904."
derangedlemur
Re. My opening comment: Looking at the full size image now, I'm wondering how much of that is motion blur and how much is genuinely some sort of ghastly injury or deformity.
Niall McAuley
The monument dates from 1903, says the DIA: Name: SHEPPARD, OLIVER * Building: CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, BULL RING, 1798 MEMORIAL Date: 1903 Nature: Bronze statue of pikeman. Refs: Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 221-2(illus.).
DannyM8
From Ulster Folk and Transport Museum A photo of the Poster, about half way down the page. NMNI
DannyM8
The Statue stands in the Bull Ring The famous Wexford Bullring was recently given a total facelift to commemorate the Bi-centenary of the 1798 Rebellion. The area was originally a beach where boats were drawn up laden with produce bound for the town's markets. It got its present name from the medieval sport of Bull-baiting, introduced to the town by the Butchers' Guild. From 1621 until 1770, bulls were baited twice a year and their hides presented to the Mayor. According to tradition, Cromwell's soldiers massacred part of the civilian population here in October 1649.
derangedlemur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] That one's from a poorhouse - it's signed William Crawford, clerk of union. The one above is posted on a market gate, so it may be part of a different campaign.
DannyM8
Over the years the Bullring has been the venue of many political rallies and protests : Daniel O'Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell, John Redmond, James Larkin and Eamonn de Valera are among the many political figures who have addressed audiences in this historic square at the heart of Wexford
DannyM8
Seems it was unveiled in 1905 and that a crowd of 30,000 attended. Now if one had access behind the pay walls of the national newspapers you could probably get a date and a report!!
DannyM8
Don't need the papers... After the R.H.A. exhibition it was transported to Wexford and stored in the basement of the Town Hall in November 1904 In April 1905, the limestone plinth was assembled in position and the statue positioned, although veiled, by late June. It was not until 6 August 1905 that the bronze on its plinth was unveiled in the Bull Ring Square, Wexford irishartsreview.com/irisartsreviyear/pdf/1990/20492627.pd...
DannyM8
From the same irish arts review (Letter from the Committee) Specifying that the monument was to be twenty feet high and that there was £550.00 available." To raise money the '98 Association held several bazaars. One such took place on 6 August 1900 with a garlanded flagpole erected on the site of the monument.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
The Wexford wikipedia article has a good "now" comparison photo, including the young lad's descendants still loitering there.
ccferrie
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] That's the one! Thanks.
Swordscookie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Apropos your first comment remember that the yellabellies are a strange mix of Norman, Dane, Breton, French, Spanish, English and Kilkenny (thats where the hurling comes from) so any physiognomy is possible:-) Personally I think its motion blur, a lad that age never stood still for any length of time!
Swordscookie
I just went in to FrigateRN's stream and he has just posted this photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/alimarante/8634076790/in/contacts/. It makes a nice little bit of happenstance!
derangedlemur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie You reckon that lump on his right cheek is his pre-motion nose as opposed to him having been run over with a harrow or caught up in the machinery of a steamship?
Swordscookie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I remember looking like that after a friend of mine and I had a fight and beat seven kinds out of me:-)
corncrake68
The Pikeman. Erected in 1904. Stood there unscathed for 106 years until in 2010 a local yob decided to disarm him. Lucky he was caught on CCTV and the Pikeman got his pike back. I think the yob got the usual slap on the wrist. flic.kr/p/8vAxUS
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Thanks very much for the location!
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie Who are yellabellies?
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Lovely to see the big version of "this" poster, thanks!
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Taking on board [http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]]'s point about "William Crawford, Clerk of Union", the only matching person I can find is in Derry. Makes sense, I guess, as the poster was in the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum. I tried all sorts of combinations, e.g. Clerk of Poor Law Union...
DannyM8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland Yellabellies http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrislynam/7160079444/
oaktree_brian_1976
"Consumption", yes the old term for TB, tuberculosis. Impressive looking statue, wouldn't want to meet that fellow in a dark alley... :)
FrigateRN
As always NLI your genius for picking pictures that kick off lots of interesting comments has worked again.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Looks more as if it should be Yellachesties!
ccferrie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Depends which jersey they're wearing
http://www.wexfordgaa.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/wexford-football-team-V-Dublin.jpg" />
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Ah, that's more like it! Yellabellies it is...
christopherlane_antiques
From Ontario, Canada, and in that province, not far from its capital of Toronto, is a place called Vinegar Hill. '98 remembered across an ocean.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Fascinating. Did a really quick and dirty Google Maps search and it threw up Brooklyn, USA; New Zealand; U.K. Bet there's at least one in Australia too...
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] In Australia 1804, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Hill_convict_rebellion
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Aha! Knew there'd be one in your neck of the woods...
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland I was interested to find the characters involved in the Australian 1804 rebellion were the some of the original rebels in Wexford. Particularly Phillip Cunningham.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia ... who was hanged in the end. Surprised to read of the two who were executed at Castle Hill and then "hung in chains"! Wouldn't have thought that still went on at the start of the 19th century, that's just
my ignoranceme being knowledge challenged.christopherlane_antiques
The biggest wave of Irish settlement in Ontario, Canada was pre-Famine through to the Famine. Green, Orange, and indifferent came and literally cut lives out of the forest. Like all immigrants, they brought their dreams and desires, effort and muscles, bigotries and hatreds. Toronto, the province's capital, was once called the Belfast of Canada, both for its factories and for its distinct Orange streak. Toronto's July 12th parades, the biggest the world has ever scene, used to take an hour to pass any given point along the parade route. In Ontario, besides Vinegar Hill, we have places named Dublin, Belfast, Tralee, Limerick, Shamrock, Ulster, Monaghan, Grattan, etc. We even have a town called Arthur, which is not too far by Canadian standards from a village called Wellesley. Of course, the Irishman Arthur Wellesley is more commonly known as the Duke of Wellington, and Ontario has a Wellington County.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Thank you for all of that background. I think "they brought their dreams and desires, effort and muscles, bigotries and hatreds" is very true.
photopol
Some before, during and after shots of the temporarily decommissioned pikeman. He also had a brief career as a "No to Lisbon" protester in relatively recent times. A closer look will show there is no need for the ladies to look away. Oscar Wilde's mother "Speranza" was born in the far left corner of the Bull Ring (then the rectory) and there isn't even a plaque to this event.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/photopol Never a dull moment for that pikeman!
Yellabelly*
Great photo!